Once complete, move your test results back to your normal tree. Check all the leaf hints (if any) and see how many matches you have through the Scottish Lord. If you have any other sibling or (appropriate)parent DNA tests, move them over too. Once complete, move your DNA test results from your entry in your normal tree to your entry in the new one, and wait a few days for ancestry to reprocess your hints. Do not add anyone else to this tree other than as many of his direct ancestors as you can up to 7th gg. Add the hypothetical father, then build his tree upward as much as possible to your hypothetical 7th great grandparents. Start with yourself, and add only your parent and grandmother. Make it private and unsearchable so as not to spread possible misinformation. If you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them, otherwise this will just have to remain a family legend. The problem now is, how do I go about finding more evidence that could support or refute this? I'm pretty sure that my Mum's other potential third cousin Liz (some may know her as Elizabeth II) isn't about to have her DNA submitted to Ancestry or any other site, nor are any other Royals. Clearly it is far from definitive, but it is very intriguing to me.

He would have been the right age, his father's lordship was in Scotland, his Mother looked almost identical to my Grandmother and he bears an uncanny resemblance to several family members descended from my Grandmother. I did some additional investigation and it made an awful lot of sense if My Grandmother was the illigitamate daughter of Prince Arthur of Connaught. So, it would make a lot of sense, based on the DNA sharing, if Victoria were the common ancestor. His Great Grandfather was the illigitamate son of Edward VII, Victoria's son. To my incredible surprise he said that there was some scandal in his family too. So, I emailed him asking about his heritage and happened to mention my family legend. I checked his family tree and there were no surnames similar to my Mum's known ancestors (I've done them all back about 5-6 generations). The closest match outside her known immediate family was a high likelihood 3rd cousin. Still, I was interested to find out who my grandfather was so I had my Mum's DNA tested on. Until last week I had always put this down to a convenient family legend trying to make a young woman's indiscretion at a time and place when it was certainly unacceptable seem somehow less 'shameful'. He couldn't stand to see my Grandmother living in poverty so he had his mother take her away. He was recalled soon after getting her pregnant but returned to marry her later, only to find her married off (I still don't believe this part). My Grandmother's father was apparently a 'Scottish Lord', who fell in love with my Great Grandmother while visiting family in Tetbury. At a very early age a 'Lady' took my grandmother from the family and placed her in a convent where she was raised and schooled. Her mother was quickly married off to the local coachman My Grandmother was born in 1905 in Tetbury, Glocestershire, England Sorry - accidental double post and cant seem to delete it. It's a small gesture but seriously, respect peoples' time & effort in helping you out. It's perfectly OK to ask for any info if you're looking for fresh leads, but you can help people to focus their efforts & look at the correct sources if you are more specific.

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